BigScience Open RAIL-M License

This is a reading of the license BigScience Open RAIL-M License. Published by BigScience. It covers Dataset and Software. Version 2 of the model.

1. What you may do

This license permits the following.
Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
Derivative works. Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
Derive. Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
Display. Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
Distribute. Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.
Modified works. Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
Modify. Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
Network use trigger. Making the work available over a network, deploying it or providing a service with it.
Patent grant. Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
Present. Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Reproduce. Making copies of the work in any form.
Sublicense. Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.
Use for model training. Using the licensed material to train, validate or tune an automated system that learns from data.

2. What you must do

These conditions come with the permissions above.
Use a compliant license. Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license. It is a condition of change license.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of derive.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of derive.
Modification notice. Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change. It is a condition of derive.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of derive.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of distribute.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of distribute.
Modification notice. Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change. It is a condition of distribute.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of distribute.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of modify.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of modify.
Modification notice. Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change. It is a condition of modify.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of modify.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of network use trigger.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of network use trigger.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of network use trigger.

3. What you may not do

This license prohibits the following.
Exempted material. Using material that the license carves out of its grant, such as personal data, official insignia, third-party rights or material under a separate license.
Patent license ends on a patent claim. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

4. Further terms

The license states these terms about itself.
Validity period: Perpetual.
Region: Worldwide.
Compatible license test: additional or different license terms and conditions are allowed only if they keep the use-based restrictions of paragraph 5 as an enforceable provision.
Field of use restriction: lawful purposes only, excluding the uses listed in Attachment A.
Reciprocity scope: the use-based restrictions, not the whole agreement.

5. Warranty, liability and support

The license carries the following clauses, quoted from the model.
Warranty disclaimer: 9. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Model and the Complementary Material (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Model, Derivatives of the Model, and the Complementary Material and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.
Limitation of liability: 10. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this License or out of the use or inability to use the Model and the Complementary Material (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Warranty or liability acceptance: 11. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While redistributing the Model, Derivatives of the Model and the Complementary Material thereof, You may choose to offer, and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations and/or rights consistent with this License. However, in accepting such obligations, You may act only on Your own behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on behalf of any other Contributor, and only if You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against, such Contributor by reason of your accepting any such warranty or additional liability.
Additional clauses: 1. Definitions (a) "License" means the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and Distribution as defined in this document. (b) "Data" means a collection of information and/or content extracted from the dataset used with the Model, including to train, pretrain, or otherwise evaluate the Model. The Data is not licensed under this License. (c) "Output" means the results of operating a Model as embodied in informational content resulting therefrom. (d) "Model" means any accompanying machine-learning based assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights, parameters (including optimizer states), corresponding to the model architecture as embodied in the Complementary Material, that have been trained or tuned, in whole or in part on the Data, using the Complementary Material. (e) "Derivatives of the Model" means all modifications to the Model, works based on the Model, or any other model which is created or initialized by transfer of patterns of the weights, parameters, activations or output of the Model, to the other model, in order to cause the other model to perform similarly to the Model, including - but not limited to - distillation methods entailing the use of intermediate data representations or methods based on the generation of synthetic data by the Model for training the other model. (f) "Complementary Material" means the accompanying source code and scripts used to define, run, load, benchmark or evaluate the Model, and used to prepare data for training or evaluation, if any. This includes any accompanying documentation, tutorials, examples, etc, if any. (g) "Distribution" means any transmission, reproduction, publication or other sharing of the Model or Derivatives of the Model to a third party, including providing the Model as a hosted service made available by electronic or other remote means - e.g. API-based or web access. (h) "Licensor" means the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License, including the persons or entities that may have rights in the Model and/or distributing the Model. (i) "You" (or "Your") means an individual or Legal Entity exercising permissions granted by this License and/or making use of the Model for whichever purpose and in any field of use, including usage of the Model in an end-use application - e.g. chatbot, translator, image generator. (j) "Third Parties" means individuals or legal entities that are not under common control with Licensor or You. (k) "Contribution" means any work of authorship, including the original version of the Model and any modifications or additions to that Model or Derivatives of the Model thereof, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Model by the copyright owner or by an individual or Legal Entity authorized to submit on behalf of the copyright owner. For the purposes of this definition, "submitted" means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the Licensor or its representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, the Licensor for the purpose of discussing and improving the Model, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by the copyright owner as "Not a Contribution." (l) "Contributor" means Licensor and any individual or Legal Entity on behalf of whom a Contribution has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated within the Model.

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